TagsTagsAs recently revealed in the leaked documents from the Heartland Institute, the climate change denial front group (with financial aid from energy industries) is producing a "global warming curriculum" for public schools, to indoctrinate children with the false notion that climate science isn't settled, and that there's nothing to worry ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Education
Environmentalist Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, has an article at the Huffington Post in which he admits he is the source of the leaked Heartland Institute documents -- but Gleick denies making changes to any documents: The Origin of the Heartland Documents. This explains why the timestamp on the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Here's the email forwarded to me today by Jim Lakely, the Heartland Institute's director of communications, threatening me with legal action because I wrote a post about the leaked Heartland documents: February 18, 2012 Mr. Charles Johnson Editor Little Green Footballs Re: Stolen and Faked Heartland Documents [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...] Dear Mr. Johnson: It has come to our ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Emissions via Shutterstock There's more today on those devastating internal documents from the Heartland Institute; Heartland has confirmed that they were mistakenly emailed by a staff member. The Heartland Institute has confirmed in a prepared statement that it mistakenly emailed its board materials to an anonymous third party - confirming the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Wow, this is huge -- DeSmogBlog is releasing a cache of documents revealing the secret anti-science schemes of climate change denial front group The Heartland Institute: Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine. Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science
Here's the inevitable second thread to cover the latest demonstration of Republican Party principles. Man, they really hate the government they want to lead, don't they?
Finally, someone other than LGF is paying attention to the GOP's criminally stupid anti-science attitudes and their media enablers. Thank you, Jon Stewart: Video You can find a full transcript of the above segment here. Also a must-see is this Aasif Mandvi piece from the same show in which he interviews disgustingly ...
Aasif Mandvi, Jon Stewart, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Denial, Fox News
An overwhelming majority of the world's environmental scientists are sounding an increasingly desperate alarm about the impending consequences of global warming, but one of the two major US political parties has decided to loudly ignore reality: Whatever Happened to Global Warming? IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Republican Party, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science
www.blogherenow.net Republican leaders have become fond of denying well-supported facts in the last few years, including such well-confirmed phenomena as (at least partly human-induced) climate change, the proven safety of vaccines, and of course evolutionary theory. What seems to be guiding them, at least unconsciously, is (roughly) the following form of ...
Republican Party, Anti-Science, Logic, Modus Tollens, Evolution, Vaccines, Climate Change, Denial
This excellent video by "potholer54" (the YouTube screen name for writer Peter Hadfield) is for all those right wingers who keep emailing and showing up in LGF comments gloating about a paper from CERN that "totally destroys the myth of global warming" (to quote one of more than a dozen ...
Anti-Science, Denial, Right Wing, CERN, Cosmic Rays, Video, Climate Change, Global Warming
Fox News seems to have decided to make an effort to appear "fair and balanced" on the subject of climate change; lately they've been bringing Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") out to argue in favor of reality (while the hosts laugh at him and ask idiotic questions). Charles Payne really sums ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Denial, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Fox News, Idiocy, Bill Nye
Climate change denial websites immediately jumped all over a recent paper from the CERN CLOUD project, about the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. I knew they had jumped, actually, before I even read "Watts Up With That" or any of the other blogs dedicated to discrediting climate science, because ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, CERN, Cosmic Rays
The libertarians are really distinguishing themselves this week with their comments on Hurricane Irene. First we had Ron Paul pining for that bygone year of 1900 when there was no FEMA and tens of thousands were left to rot where they died. Good times! And now we have Patrick Michaels (a senior ...
Hurricane Irene, Patrick Michaels, Climate Change, Global Warming, National Weather Service, Denial, Exxonmobil
The National Science Foundation has concluded yet another investigation into the work of climate scientist Michael Mann (creator of the famous "hockey stick" temperature graph you see above), whose research and personal character have been targeted in a years-long, relentless smear campaign by energy industry front groups and the right ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Michael Mann
It's always fun when right wing bloggers encounter a story about scientists doing what scientists do, and promptly turn into a mob of shrieking monkeys flinging poo at something they don't understand. Today, nearly the entire right wing blogosphere is moronically piling onto a story from the Guardian about a research ...
Right Wing, Anti-Science, Ignorance, Global Warming, Denial, Howler Monkeys
The world's plants and animals are migrating as the climate changes. “The more warming there’s been in an area, the more you would expect a species to move, and the more they have moved,” said Chris D. Thomas, a conservation biologist at the University of York in England, who led ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
One of the latest front groups organized by the Koch Brothers has the lofty-yet-innocuous sounding name, "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)," and Think Progress has a photo of the ugly anti-scientific literature they're distributing: At Koch’s ALEC Conference: ‘The Many Benefits Of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment’. Also see: VIDEO: Security Guards At ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Koch Brothers
The Fox News anti-science agenda sometimes results in hilariously stupid moments like this one, in which a Fox News anchor reacts to the discovery of volcanoes on the moon by saying: Does it go, you know, anywhere close to the climate change debate that's under way here on Earth, I ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Denial, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Fox News, Idiocy
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has reportedly asked his lawyer how many people he killed in his rampage. The lawyer, Geir Lippestad, also said that Breivik took some sort of drugs to be "strong, efficient, and awake." In addition to his "counter-jihad" ideology (taken directly from the hateful writing of ...
Norway, Oslo, Anders Behring Breivik, Climate Change, Denial
Lately, the right wing Power Line blog has been angling for a position as one of the prime sources of climate change denial in the blogosphere. They have a lot of competition, because denying the science of climate change is absolutely universal in the right wing blogosphere. But today they make ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Monty Python
In the past couple of weeks, right wing media and blogs have been gleefully trumpeting the latest absurd climate change denial claim -- that the Sun is entering a period of low activity, and this will trigger a "mini-ice age." I haven't checked all of them, but every right wing ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
Al Gore's piece for Rolling Stone has already provoked a chorus of ignorant derision from the bleachers, but I recommend it as a call to action while we still have time, in the face of the Republican Party and the right wing's Climate of Denial. ... Scientists have been warning ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Al Gore
Here's a classic example of the bizarre reality-denying cognitive dissonance of right wing climate change deniers. In the Minnesota State Senate, one of the loudest voices against accepting the scientific reality of climate change is Michael Jungbauer, who's known for making grand pronouncements about "not being convinced" by the science, and ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Minnesota, Heartland Institute
It's become both an article of faith and a litmus test for conservatives to claim that global warming is a "hoax," presumably staged by evil scientists bent on world domination. This incredibly dangerous ostrich-like thinking is nearly universal on the right wing and in the Republican Party, and yesterday we ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science
Today at UCLA, a group of high profile climate change deniers are featured at a conference titled: "Big Footprint: Is Green the New Tyranny?" By itself this is nothing special; climate "skeptics" are always having these echo chamber conferences, to keep the deluded masses fully stocked up with hooey. But this ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Creationism, Anti-Muslim, American Freedom Alliance